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fancy shawl
Eventually, women were given their own "fancy shawl" category. A woman on the forums "Lngfthr" said that women used to be more like moths instead of butterflies. But now the dance is known as the "butterfly" dance, and the story is told about a cocoon and emerging from it anew -
fancy shawl regaila
Fancy Shawl Regalia is a Native American culture, it tells there tribal affiliation and ancestry , reveal their personality, family heritage, and spiritual quests -
fancy shawl
Women were at the forefront of the household while the men were going off to World War II (1939-1945). From there on after, the women wanted to dance like the men at pow wows. This was happening at the same time that the women's rights movement was gaining a foothold worldwide and becoming known as "feminism" (1960s). -
fancy shawl
From reading the forums on here, it sounds like some women had been dressing up in Men's Fancy Feather regalia and entering their contests, and had even beat the men sometimes. Women were greatly discouraged though, and had things thrown at them, like rocks and tomatoes. Or when contest judges realized it was a woman in a man's regalia, they didn't allow her to compete. Though it sounds like some did, if women were beating the men sometimes. -
fancy shawl
As far as a married woman not dancing fancy, I just heard about a fancy shawl dancer that has been married to a men's fancy feather dancer for several years now, and she still dances. Considering how this dance was about equalizing the sexes somewhat, I think it'd be weird to get married and then banned from dancing fancy shawl. :( -
fancy shawl
The girl who is represented by a larva of a butterfly becomes a woman who is represented by the butterfly,” wrote one misguided “reviewer. While dancers frequently are young women—the stamina required means that dancers move toward more traditional women’s dance as they age—the comparison is simply untrue. “When women’s fancy first came around, they didn’t look or dance like the fancy shawl dancers of today, all colorful like butterflies,” said a Standing Rock Sioux woman -
fancy shawl regaila
While this sounds nice, you should ask some older fancy shawl dancers about the history. The real story is much more empowering. A cocoon doesn't get booed and have stuff thrown at it LOL... The women that endured ridicule were, and are, lady warriors. I wish this was acknowledged more often!
